[Compcomm] Release & repo policy

[Mike Dransfield]

Danny Baumann wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>>> Source release != release source...
>>>
>>>       
>> Please define more clearly what you mean, its all becoming
>> very confusing (for everyone).
>>     
>
> I feel that's just you who is confused.
> Release source == (Group of) people who release a piece of software
> Source release == Released tarball
>   

Cant we just call people who release software 'developers',
its much easier to understand.

Either way it is very possible to have one source release which
comprises of many sources from many release sources and
source releases.  Hows that?


> So there can be multiple source releases from one release source (what
> compcomm is planning to do) and/or one source release from multiple release
> source (your compiz-extra tarball). Easy as that.
>
>   
>>>> Contrary to what you think the compiz-extra plugin contains
>>>> plugins from > 3 locations.
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> ....but thanks for proving my point. I assume you have
>>>       
>> git/svn/whatever tags
>>     
>>> for each release?
>>>
>>>       
>> All the ones that were not in svn obviously did not.
>>
>> All the ones that were in svn I marked what revision they were on
>> my website.
>>     
>
> Which is? www.anykeysoftware.co.uk gives me "Hello" - that's all.
>   

I took it down because it was causing confusion with the extras
tarball.

>   
>> Sorry I really do not get it.
>>
>> "The compiz extra tarball will always comprise of plugins from
>> different locations."
>>
>> That means that the compiz extra does not only contain plugins
>> from the beryl git repo, it contains plugins from lots of different
>> places.
>>
>> "I do not really consider the python plugin to be serious yet"
>>
>> Thats not related to compiz-extra at all, the python plugin isn't in
>> compiz-extra because it only works with git.
>>
>> I do not consider it serious in the sense that each release must be
>> documented and signed off.
>>
>> Compiz-extra is not related to the python plugin at all so how is a
>> comment about the python plugin related to a comment about
>> compiz-extra being lots of plugins from different places?
>>     
>
> Ok, again:
> - I talked about your tarball and the lack of reproducibility of its source
> origin / revision.
> - You responded with statements about the Python plugin.
>
> You should ask yourself how those are related and not me.
>   

I was asking how I was being contradictive.  Maybe you didn't
mean contradiction?

I told you I had a list of all the plugins and their svn revision
where applicable.

>> And how is any of it relevant to a post about your new forum?
>>     
>
> RYX' original statement was nearly as offtopic as this discussion. I have
> adjusted the topic for the nitpickers among us.
> If the discussion is about "your forum" (as in: our excluding you), I don't
> really see why you should be relevant here.
>   

It was a small off topic comment, the rest of the email was
ignored and one small point was picked on.  This is normal
as far as I can see.


> Regards,
>
> Danny
>
>
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